Research Organization Registry - ROR support

[stuzart]

support reference an institution with an ROR identifier, and using the list when creating new ones

[alaninmcr]

One thing to note is that the REST API returns a lot of information that could be used to pre-populate much of the SEEK institution fields. So it would be more like importing a publication (or syncing a workflow) than just adding another field.

[alaninmcr]

The API also allows searching of the database and retrieval of lists of organizations

[alaninmcr]

It could be integrated as an external search.

[rabuono]

Being able to use ROR identifiers to not only define an institution but also fetch info to fill SEEK fields would be a nice way to reduce variations in Institution info due to human input (intentional or accidental).

[alaninmcr]

I wrote a small Jupyter notebook to use the API to do this. I noted a weirdness in that getting an institution has

"country": "United Kingdom" "country_code": "GB"

whereas to set it you need

"country": "GB"

See #1204